Archaeology: Turkey’s largest museum complex to open soon 13 septembre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: archaeology, Göbeklitepe, Haleplibahce Museum Complex, Mosaics, museum, Sanliurfa
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ANSAmed (Italy)
13 September 2013, Ankara
A big project in the field of culture and tourism is being realized in the southeastern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, the main city of which is regarded as the world’s oldest city due to the « temple center » and the remains in Gobeklitepe. (suite…)
Burhan Dogancay Dies at 83; Artist Inspired by City Wall 22 janvier 2013
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture.Tags: Burhan Dogancay, museum, painter, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Tuesday, January 22, 2013, p. A 18
Obituary
By Paul Vitello
Burhan Dogancay, a Turkish-born artist considered one of his country’s first internationally recognized abstract painters, died on Wednesday in Istanbul. He was 83. (suite…)
A monument to an adventurer’s fantasies 29 novembre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, France, History / Histoire, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: museum, Ottoman Empire, Pierre Loti, Restoration and Renovation, Rochefort, Turkey
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International Herald Tribune, Thursday, November 29, 2012
By Susanne Fowler, Rochefort (France)
The French government shores up a novelist’s Ottoman celebration. (suite…)
Seeking Return Of Art, Turkey Jolts Museums 1 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, France, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, museum, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Monday, October 1, 2012, p. A 1
By Dan Bilefsky, Istanbul
An aggressive campaign by Turkey to reclaim antiquities it says were looted has led in recent months to the return of an ancient sphinx and many golden treasures from the region’s rich past. (suite…)
Turkish Writer Opens Museum Based on Novel 30 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Istanbul, museum, Museum of Innocence, novel, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) April 30, 2012, p. C1
By J. Michael Kennedy, Istanbul
The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, »The Museum of Innocence. » (suite…)
Turkey: first photography museum opens in Istanbul 9 décembre 2011
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Gultekin Cizgen, History / Histoire, Istanbul, museum, photography, Photography Museum of Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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ANSAmed (Italia) Italiano
9 December 2011, Ankara
Milestone. From first Ottoman shots to present day. Turkey’s first photography museum » has been opened in Istanbul, and will house and display examples of the art of photography and promote its development. (suite…)
Ancient connections bring a modern rapprochement 28 juillet 2011
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Anatolia, Cyclades, exhibition, Greece, History / Histoire, museum, N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art, Nazan Ölçer, Nicholas Stampolidis, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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International Herald Tribune, Thursday, July 28, 2011
Susanne Fowler, Istanbul
Turkey and Greece find common ground in an exhibit on their past (suite…)
In Turkey, a home for ancient mosaics 20 juillet 2011
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: archaeology, Gaziantep, History / Histoire, Mosaics, museum, Turkey / Turquie, Zeugma Mosaic Museum
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The New York Times (USA) Wednesday, July 20, 2011 – blogs
By Tanya Mohn
A museum of ancient mosaics recently opened in Gaziantep, Turkey. On display at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum are mosaics depicting Greek and Roman mythology recovered from archaeological excavations at Zeugma, a nearby site on the Euphrates River that in the ancient world was an important crossroads of major trade routes. (suite…)
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